My townhome has a garage, it's about 237.5 inches long. I read online that the Ram crew cab is 232.9 inches long. However after adjusting for the garage door hinges and whatnot I have about 235 inches of usable space. Has or does anyone park their truck in the garage with little room for error. It gives me 2.1 inches of wiggle room.
Is the truck actually that length? Any ideas or responses/insights would be greatly appreciated.
How about the "golf ball-on-a-string" trick? Either head-in or back-in with the help of a spotter, to get the truck right where you want it. Then hang a golf ball (or a tennis ball) on a string from the ceiling so that it just touches either the windshield (if you park head-in) or the back window (if you back in). Then you just ease the vehicle until the window just touches the golf/tennis ball and you're good.
Although it's considerably harder to see, we actually bought the laser-pointer accessory from Chamberlain (manufacturer of our garage door opener) that mounts on the garage ceiling, so nothing hanging down in your way like a golf ball. Again, you'd pull the truck in with the assistance of a spotter, then you aim the laser dot (a small, flashing red dot on ours) so that it strikes a place on the dash or the hood or the top of the tailgate or wherever, and you ease the vehicle in until that particular spot intersects the laser dot. A very clean solution, but as I said, that small red flashing dot is difficult to see on a black dashboard. When I'm backing in, I hold up a piece of paper (usually a piece of mail as I pick up our mail from a PO box) above the dash, then it's easy to see the red dot. Another disadvantage of the laser dot is that if you're even slightly off side-to-side, the dot can get lost in a fold of the dashboard or hits a speaker grille, and you back in too far. If you have a light-colored truck, I'd suggest aiming the laser dot onto the hood, close to the back edge of the hood, so you have a clear line to gauge your position by. Maybe there is another electronic solution that works as well as the garage-door-opener laser pointer but is easier to see (like a parking sensor mounted to the wall of the garage and it lights an LED at a specific, adjustable range). Or just use the cheap golf/tennis ball on a string until you find a cleaner, high-tech solution you like and can trust.
